Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims

Tanweer Fazal is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad, India. Divya Vaid teaches Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

List of Tables

List of Figures

Author Biographies

Preface

Introduction: The Muslim Question in Contemporary India

Tanweer Fazal, Divya Vaid and Surinder S. Jodhka

SECTION I

Development Trajectories

1 Post-Sachar Indian Muslims: Facets of Socio-Economic Decline

Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyarasan A.

2 Islam, Development and Globalization: Transformation of a Traditionalist Muslim Group in Kerala

M. S. Visakh and R. Santhosh

3 Degrees of Disadvantage: Education as Social Equalizer in India’s Labour Market?

Mohd. Sanjeer Alam

SECTION II

Mobile Landscapes

4 Social Mobility Patterns, Opportunities, and Barriers: Muslims in Contemporary India

Divya Vaid

5 In the Middle of the Ocean and Land: Muslims of Mangalore

Shaunna Rodrigues

6 The Old and the New Muslim Middle Class: Classificatory Practices and Social Mobility

Tanweer Fazal

7 Delayed and Depleted: In Search of the Missing Muslim Middle Class in India

Amir Ali

8 Aspirations of Muslim Men in Delhi: Importance of Self-Employment in Jamia Nagar

Aashti Salman

SECTION III

Quest for Citizenship: Marginality, Mobility, and Violence

9 Swan Song: Muslim Musicians in Contemporary Banaras: Stories of Survival and Denial

Zarin Ahmad

10 Indian Muslims and the Ghettoised Economy: The Role of Negative Emotions on Occupational Choices in the Urban Labour Markets

Sumeet Mhaskar

11 From the Bigoted Julaha to the Terrorist: Stigma and Identity in Azamgarh

Manisha Sethi

12 Marginality among Muslims in Kerala: The Case of Marakkayar Community

Salah Punathil

Index